Harris v. Equator Mining & Smelting Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Colorado
Ejectment to recover possession of the Ocean Wave lode, situate in Griffith mining district, Clear Creek county, Colorado. Trial at May term, 1881, and verdict for plaintiffs. Motion for new trial then made and submitted. Decided at October term, 1881.
1Opinion of the CourtHallett, J.
Defendant applied in the Land Office at Central City to enter the Charlotte lode, and plaintiffs made adverse claim to a part of the territory as the Ocean Wave, and brought this suit in support of their claim. The claims overlap near the ends, and the area in dispute is not very large. The Ocean Wave is something more than ten years older than the other location, and a tunnel has been run nearly the whole length of the( claim. At the trial there was evidence to show that the lode was discovered in the year 1867, and that work had been done in the tunnel from time to time thereafter, until…
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